Accession number
PML 145850.73
Creator
Gaultier, Léonard, 1561-1641, engraver.
Published
[Paris] : I. Messager excudit, [1616?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Mounted as item 73 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Mounted as item 73 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 540 x 400 mm; sheet: 562 x 406 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A complex composition showing an allegorical tree with roots which emerge from a river and transform into different paths taken by believers to arrive at a knowledge of God. The tree is flanked by 12 theologians, identified by name, who gaze up its crown, where the proofs of the existence of God emerge from the branches. In the foreground, the allegorical figures of Physica, Ethics, and Logic are shown watering sunflowers, irises, and roses.
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